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22 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 9, 197530 mins
Kotter arranges a debate between the Sweathogs and the debate team.
Episode 2
Tue, Sep 16, 197530 mins
Kotter is pressured to give Boom-Boom a passing grade on his exam, which he fails, so that he can continue to play on the basketball team.
Episode 3
Tue, Sep 23, 197530 mins
Gabriel Kotter is a teacher in Brooklyn, New York who ends up teaching at his old alma mater: Buchanan High School. He has been assigned to teach the remedial students, better known as the Sweathogs, a group to which he used to belong.
Episode 4
Tue, Sep 30, 197530 mins
Rosalie fakes shes pregnant in order to make the sweathogs confess she did not fool around with them.
Episode 5
Tue, Oct 7, 197530 mins
Vinnie runs for class president.
Episode 6
Tue, Oct 14, 197530 mins
Mr. Woodman and Mr. Kotter reverse roles. Mr. Woodman starts being nice to the sweathogs, and Mr. Kotter starts getting mean to them.
Episode 7
Tue, Oct 21, 197530 mins
Freddie and Vernajean wants to quit school to get married. So Mr. Kotter has them act out a marriage in class.
Episode 8
Tue, Oct 28, 197530 mins
Epstein loses a fight to Todd Ludlow, he feels so ashamed about it he runs away.
Episode 9
Tue, Nov 4, 197530 mins
Mr. Kotter is suspended because Mr. Woodman doesn't like his teaching methods.
Episode 10
Tue, Nov 18, 197530 mins
Mr. Kotter dreads an old successful classmate coming to dinner.
Episode 11
Tue, Nov 25, 197530 mins
Mr. Kotter talks Judy into tutoring Barbarino. The two eventually become friends, but Barbarino doesn't want the other Sweathogs to know about it.
Episode 12
Tue, Dec 2, 197530 mins
A new girl sweathog arrives and has all the boy sweathogs in heat.
Episode 13
Tue, Dec 16, 197530 mins
When it is announced that Horshack has graduated out of the Sweathogs and into regular classes, Kotter instructs the remaining Sweathogs to shun him so that he can meet people in his new classes.
Episode 14
Tue, Jan 6, 197630 mins
Kotter begins to behave erratically when he learns that Julie will be going on a weekend ski trip, marking the first time that they've been separated since their marriage.
Episode 15
Tue, Jan 13, 197630 mins
Instead of the planned food fight, Kotter convinces the Sweathogs to stage an all-night classroom sit-in to protest the school's serving of liver for lunch.
Episode 16
Tue, Jan 20, 197630 mins
Sweathogs tapping at the window for breakfast, coupled with the love, attention and time Mr. Kotter lavishes upon his students finally drive the neglected Julie to leave Gabe. Meanwhile, Kotter's classroom lesson on democracy goes awry when the Sweathogs vote Barbarino out and Freddie in as their new leader, provoking the rejected Vinnie to drop out of school.
Episode 17
Thu, Jan 22, 197630 mins
Mr. Kotter seeks to reconcile with Julie, Freddie's leadership of the Sweathogs evokes the adage of absolute power corrupting absolutely and Barbarino weighs humility versus being a high school dropout and door-to-door Tidy-Didy cleanser salesman.
Episode 18
Thu, Jan 29, 197630 mins
Epstein goes to the guidance counselor to talk about being a veterinarian. She says he is not smart enough and he should look for a career in manual labor. So he gives his animals Kotter because he thinks he can't take care of them anymore.
Episode 19
Thu, Feb 5, 197630 mins
A flu epidemic requires several advanced students to join Kotter's class, where they quickly outshine his struggling students. Kotter boosts the battered self-confidence of his Sweathogs by demonstrating that not all smarts are book smarts.
Episode 20
Thu, Feb 12, 197630 mins
Arnold and Mr. Kotter persuade the Sweathogs to hold a telethon for much needed school supplies.
Episode 21
Thu, Feb 19, 197630 mins
Mr. Woodman gleefully informs Kotter that there are no records of his having completed his senior exams, so Kotter has to take the tests alongside his Sweathogs, who commit to tutoring him.
Episode 22
Thu, Feb 26, 197630 mins
Vinnie's 87 year old grandmother is in the hospital possibly on her death bed. When his grandmother dies he decides he must honor her death bed request of him and become a priest. He now walks the hallways of Buchanan telling everyone he loves them and organizing prayer meetings. But what is he to do when faced with an after school date with Bambi? Kotter and the rest of the guys must convince Vinnie that he just isn't cut out to be a priest.